I'm wondering how many of you guys use Orb (http://www.orb.com) to stream your Media from your PC to your Wii. I think the app is PERFECT... well almost. Currently Ive been adding TV channel streams to my Orb account so that I can watch TV channels from my system. I'm planning on creating an Orb server but I need an old (not too old) PC and a bigger or multiple hard drive(s) so I can put my media on it and dedicate it to streaming. I've tred the whole sharing Orb accounts between multiple Wiis thing and it works almost flawlessly. If I can get the things I need there won't be a need for anyone to ever go to the video store, rent a movie or buy cable lol. I know that some will complain that this is Piracy "en masse" but I just want to test out a theory. Maybe a few of us can create orb related servers and share the accounts, giving us all cool things to watch Anywho, what do you guys thinl about the idea. And for those of you already using ORB I'll be posting up my Channels (links) soon for you to add to your accounts. If you have channels that you think people might like. Feel free to enter them in this thread.

Basically, you go to orb.com and download their software onto your PC. Installation is super easy and after that, you (from your Wii's Internet Channel) go to mycast.orb.com. If you have your folders set up the right way, you will be able to access your media from your PC and stream it to your Wii. For me, the video quality is almost perfect and I love the ability to also be able to access my PC's disc drive for my multiple DVD data disc full of episodes

i tried it once, didn't really like it. It doesn't stream media from your pc to the wii, it instead streams the media from your PC to the orb servers and then your wii streams it back from there. Always seemed like a waste of bandwidth to me.

If you have your own server you can make things like this (I've kinda half done that for my LAN).

I've not tried any official alternatives to this yet, but I believe there are a few.

One bad point of orb is that sometimes (rarely) they seem to have a high server load, apart from that very n00b friendly and takes 5 minutes to set up. No space required on the Wii except for taking up 1 favourite slot in your internet favourites if you decide.
The pc software runs on pretty much every pc these days too.

I've tried ORB a couple of times since i found it over a year ago, never been able to get the videos working.. they just go black, sometimes i get the first frame.. Images and such works nice though.. but for video i just use my PC, or MPlayer or something similar.

quality can ofcourse be a issue and TVersity converts your media to FLV on the fly.

i mean if your looking for 1080 or suttin lol then obviously go for direct, to be honest my main 52" screen is hooked up to my PC so i jus play back my media direct from my system, but for wireless, ease of use and convience, TVersity is alot better than Orb, i've even streamed to my iPhone and PSP with it in the past with no issues..

I dunno about the quality issues but I don't have any gripes. All of my episodes of Enterprise are DVD rips and they look almost perfect when I watch then through Orb. There's a bit of artifacting because of streaming but it can barely be seen.

OK I'm back. I figured it was time for another proof of concept...test. I just set up one of my Hard Drives for Orb usage and could use some "helpers". I just want random people to log on using the following account and just have fun. Watch a movie, listen to some music. Just tell me how your experience was. Hopefully if all goes well, I can turn this into something bigger and have a whole PC dedicated to media sharing. I'm not going to have this HDD up for long and probably switch my drive sometime tomorrow after work so I can get back to my other projects but I really want to know what you people think. Also...I'm still setting up folders -n- stuff so don't be freaked out if you see something change while file browsing